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Christopher Hitchens, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Michael McClure, Billy Collins, Iris Chang, Patricia Neal
with Stephen Michael Shearer, Edward Albee, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, and Senator Byron L. Dorgan.
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UCSD TV: Professor Robert Polito and Patricia Patterson discussing
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Prof. Gideon
Rappaport,
renowned
Shakespeare scholar and dramaturge,
will
discuss his new book
WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET:
Edited and Annotated
Thursday,
February 15, 7pm
Though
it is one of Shakespeare's greatest and most beloved plays, Hamlet has
been repeatedly misunderstood. This is partly because audience assumptions
about the nature of reality have undergone huge changes between Shakespeare's
time and ours. In the name of those different assumptions, modern scholars,
play directors, and film producers have often wrenched Shakespeare's play out
of its intended meaning. The result is that for most people what this great
play is really about has been almost entirely obscured. Founded on the best
scholarship of the past, William Shakespeare's Hamlet not only provides
precise glosses on the meanings of particular words and phrases as they would
have been understood by Shakespeare's audience and specific suggestions for
actors and directors. More importantly, it clarifies the profound dramatic
through-line of the play. The commentary in the annotation demonstrates that
the story of Shakespeare's Hamlet is not of a man "who could not make up
his mind," or who thinks too much to act, or who exhibits the relativity
of all values, or who is Oedipally in love with his mother, or who
melancholically wishes he were dead. These and other non-Shakespearean
interpretations superimposed on the play in the last hundred years vanish into insignificance
in the face of the actual story of Hamlet as revealed in the original meanings
of its speeches and their interrelation. That story is of a man who, in a
dangerous and paradoxical moral situation-which stands for the situation of
every one of us-becomes guilty of a tragic moral fall and then undergoes a
spiritual turning leading to redemption.
Gideon
Rappaport has an honors B.A. in Literature and History from Cowell College,
University of California at Santa Cruz, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in British and
American Literature from Brandeis University. He has taught Shakespeare,
British Literature, and Humanities at Hamilton College, SUNY Cortland,
Concordia University, and the University of New Hampshire, and at The Bishop’s
School and La Jolla Country Day School in La Jolla, California. His many
articles, reviews and books include Appreciating Shakespeare,
which can also be heard as a podcast on Buzzsprout at “Appreciating Shakespeare
with Doctor Rap.” Rappaport has also served as theatrical dramaturge for
professional theaters including the Old Globe Theatre, the California
Shakespeare Festival, the British-American Youth Festival Theatre, the San
Diego Repertory Theatre, the North Coast Repertory Theatre, the Intrepid
Theatre, the Moonlight, the Poor Players, the New Fortune Theatre Company, and
the Coronado Community Theatre, and the San Diego Shakespeare Society, as well
as school productions at The Bishop’s School and La Jolla Country Day School.
He has lectured on Shakespeare for continued learning programs at University of
California at San Diego and University of San Diego, for the Honors Seminars of
the San Diego City Schools, Friends of the Library in several cities, the San
Diego Shakespeare Society, and conventions of the National Association of
Independent Schools and the California Association of Independent
Schools.
Previous Events at D.G.Wills Books
Christopher Hitchens
Oscar-Winning Actor Sean Penn
Oscar-Winning Director Oliver Stone
Historian and Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert
Francoise Gilot
Vogue magazine photo of Francoise Gilot
at the original store
Michael McClure
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman, Director of the Neurosciences
Institute, with U.C. Berkeley philosopher John Searle with Mrs. Searle
Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen
Quincy Troupe
Iris Chang
Gerry Spence
Noted editor Robert Weil, editing a Patricia
Highsmith manuscript for W.W. Norton & Co.
N. Parthasarathi,
Indian Consul General, San Francisco; and Nirupama Rao, Ambassador of India to the U.S.
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Loeb Classical Library and Western Philosophy wall
Previous Events at D.G.Wills Books
NORMAN MAILER, l995
Ted Burke, Norman Mailer, Dennis Wills
Allen Ginsberg, l994
The New York Times Pulitzer Prize Columnist
Maureen Dowd
Jill Abramson, Executive Editor, The
New York Times, with Maureen Dowd
Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States,
2001-2003
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Gore Vidal, November 2005
Gore Vidal with Professor Dennis Altman
Gore Vidal, March l998, with noted South African playwright
Athol Fugard in audience
Nobel Laureate Francis Crick, February 1995
James D. Watson and Francis Crick with their model of the DNA molecule, the Double Helix, at
Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, l953
Nobel Laureate James D. Watson, September 2007
Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott
Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis
Three & One-Half Time Pulitzer Prize Playwright Edward Albee
Pulitzer Prize Poet Gary Snyder
Pulitzer Prize poet Gary Snyder
Oscar-Winning Actress Patricia Neal with her biographer
Stephen Michael Shearer
Patricia Neal holding a model of "Gort" from the science fiction
film classic "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus of the University of
California, former UCSD Chancellor and former Director of the National Science Foundation
Renowned scientist Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson with Mrs. Dyson
A visit from Oscar Nominated and Emmy Award Winning
Actor Paul Giamatti
A visit from Jim Belushi, 2003
Jim Belushi at the original store, l988
Claude Picasso and Francoise Gilot
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